Oil started replacing wood as the fuel consumed by the steam powered logging and railroad eqipment owned
by the McCloud River companies in the first decade of the 1900's. The shift created demands for new
storage and transportation equipment. In 1907, the railroad built a 5,000-barrel capacity oil storage
tank on the hillside west of the yards and shops in McCloud and started purchasing tank cars to
transport oil. The roster gradually expanded through the years, with cars added or modified to
handle gasoline and diesel fuel as the McCloud companies adopted internal combustion.

The below roster includes those cars used to handle oil and other liquid fuels. Most of these cars
did not stray from McCloud rails. The only exception would be the 2000-series American Car &
Foundry tank cars, which regularly made round trips from McCloud to the oil fields aroung Bakersfield,
CA, to get loads of oil for return to McCloud. The railroad never changed out the arch bar trucks
underneath the cars, which eventually caught up to the company. In February 1936, the railroad interchanged
cars #2002 and #2004 to the SP, who took them to the Bakersfield area. On the return trip, one of the
trucks under car #2002 failed, leading to a derailment that injured the two SP crewman riding on the
caboose. Whether this derailment ended the off-line use of these cars or not is unknown; however,
Federal regulations banned all cars riding on arch bar trucks from being interchanged in 1941, which
ended the off-line use of these cars anyway. Oil shipments thereafter arrived in McCloud in foriegn
road tank cars.

2000: 8,000 gallon, 33-foot steel tank car. Built 1907 by American Car & Foundry, Niles, Ohio.
Purchased new. Rebuilt 1926 with a new depreciation schedule. Original K- brakes replaced with AB brakes
1946/1947. Converted to water service in later years. Dismantled in Burney, with tank body
leased 7/1963 to Morrison-Knudson for Pit 6 and 7 dam building projects.Locomotive #23 with tank car #2000 in the woods, probably in the late 1930s. From the T.E. "Eddy"
Glover collection.

2001: 8,000 gallon, 33-foot steel tank car. Built 1907 by American Car & Foundry, Niles, Ohio.
Purchased new. Rebuilt 1926 with a new depreciation schedule. Original K- brakes replaced with
AB brakes 1946/1947. Power brake installed 1958. Converted to water service in later years.
Sold 1966 to U.S. Plywood.

2003: 8,000 gallon, 33-foot steel tank car. Built 1907 by American Car & Foundry, Niles, Ohio.
Purchased new. Rebuilt 1926 with a new depreciation schedule. Converted 1940 to a "Cat Car" by
removing just shy of one half of the tank body and replacing it with a large storage box. Capacity
of tank reduced to 5,200 gallons. Car carried diesel fuel and cat parts and was mated to one of the
two tool cars (#1983 or #1733:2) to support field repairs and servicing of logging tractors in the
woods. Install power brake 1959. Dismantled and sold to Morrison-Knudson.#2003 and tool car #1733 at Camp Kinyon in 1962. Henry W. Brueckman photograph, Jack Neville
collection.

2004: 8,000 gallon, 33-foot steel tank car. Built 1907 by American Car & Foundry, Niles, Ohio.
Purchased new. Rebuilt 1926 with a new depreciation schedule. Converted 1940 to a "Cat Car" by
removing just shy of one half of the tank body and replacing it with a large storage box. Capacity
of tank reduced to 5,200 gallons. Car carried diesel fuel and cat parts and was mated to one of the
two tool cars (#1983 or #1733) to support field repairs and servicing of logging tractors in the
woods. Power brake installed 1957. Retired late 1969/early 1970.

2005: 8,000 gallon, 33-foot steel tank car. Built 1907 by American Car & Foundry, Niles, Ohio.
Purchased new. Rebuilt 1926 with a new depreciation schedule. Original K- brakes replaced with AB
brakes 1946/1947. Rigged for jammer (McGiffert loader) service in later years. Retired late 1969/early 1970.

2010: 8,000 gallon steel tank car. Purchased 1928. Appears to have been a former Gulf Refining Company car.
Rigged for jammer (McGiffert loader) service in later years.
Power brake installed 1957. Appears to have been converted circa 1977 to fire car #1716.